In our polling, 56.4 percent of Deadspin voters thought that Mark McGwire was HOF-worthy, while just 11.0 percent of BBWAA voters put him on their ballot. That 45.4 percentage point difference makes McGwire—by one measure—the player whom our voters were most bullish on, relative to the writers. McGwire narrowly beat out Edgar Martinez (+44.7 percent) and Don Mattingly (+43.1 percent) for that honor. Who else did you like?

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The table below shows how each player performed on the Deadspin and BBWAA Hall of Fame ballots, ranked by the difference. This isn't a precise, apples-to-apples comparison. We didn't limit you to 10 choices, the way the BBWAA does. For that reason, Deadspin's voting percentage is higher than the BBWAA tally for every player, save one:

Player

Deadspin

HOF

Diff.

Mark McGwire

56.4

11.0

+45.4

Edgar Martinez

69.9

25.2

+44.7

Don Mattingly

51.3

8.2

+43.1

Fred McGriff

44.9

11.7

+33.2

Sammy Sosa

40.0

7.2

+32.8

Larry Walker

42.4

10.2

+32.2

Roger Clemens

66.6

35.4

+31.2

Barry Bonds

64.9

34.7

+30.2

Curt Schilling

58.9

29.2

+29.7

Rafael Palmeiro

33.3

4.4

+28.9

Mike Mussina

45.0

20.3

+24.7

Jeff Kent

39.3

15.2

+24.1

Mike Piazza

81.7

62.2

+19.5

Alan Trammell

38.5

20.8

+17.7

Hideo Nomo

18.7

1.1

+17.6

Moises Alou

16.4

1.1

+15.3

Jeff Bagwell

66.8

54.3

+12.5

Luis Gonzalez

13.1

0.9

+12.2

Tim Raines

57.4

46.1

+11.3

Kenny Rogers

10.2

0.2

+10.0

Ray Durham

9.8

0

+9.8

Eric Gagne

9.7

0.4

+9.3

Mike Timlin

9.0

0

+9.0

Frank Thomas

92.6

83.7

+8.9

Richie Sexson

7.2

0

+7.2

Sean Casey

5.5

0

+5.5

Todd Jones

4.6

0

+4.6

Paul Lo Duca

4.4

0

+4.4

Jacque Jones

4.6

0.2

+4.4

JT Snow

4.6

0.4

+4.2

Armando Benitez

4.2

0.2

+4.0

Lee Smith

33.4

29.9

+3.5

Craig Biggio

78.1

74.8

+3.3

Greg Maddux

98.3

97.2

+1.1

Tom Glavine

92.1

91.9

+0.2

Jack Morris

41.7

61.5

-19.8

Bold players were on Deadspin's ballot, Italicized players made the HOF.